During the attack they found themselves at the airport.
Eleven senior members of the IRGC in Syria were reported killed during an overnight attack on Damascus airport.
Most of the commanders operating in eastern Syria were killed.
Nour Rashid, the commander of Iranian forces in eastern Syria, was injured in the attack.
They were all at the airport to meet a high-ranking delegation.
Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Syria, the Syrian Defense Ministry said, and state media reported attacks near the capital Damascus.
The ministry said that at approximately 11:05 p.m., Israel launched air strikes “from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some locations in the southern region.”
Israel rarely comments on strikes in Syria, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow arch-enemy Iran, which backs President Bashar al-Assad's government, to expand its presence in the country.
“Our air defense system is intercepting hostile targets in the vicinity of Damascus,” the official SANA news agency said.
“The Israeli attack targeted the outskirts of the capital Damascus,” state television reported.
Cursor previously wrote that the IDF attacked Syrian air defense systems in Damascus, media reported . The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Israeli strikes on Syrian air defense positions in the southern province of Suwayda, as well as near Damascus International Airport.
The attack near the airport occurred “a day after the airport resumed flights,” said a British observer with a network inside Syria.
We also reported that the son of the IRGC commander liquidated in Syria made a harsh statement.
